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Allstate stories: 6 news summaries

Insurer Sees Games as Boost for Old Brains

'Mental fitness' software improves reaction time, peripheral vision

Jun 8, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - An experiment by Allstate Insurance and a San Francisco software startup that aims to use computer games to improve the mental health of all ages is getting good reviews, the Chronicle reports, including from one local who says improved reaction time and peripheral vision saved him from an accident. “... More »

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software • brain • driving • auto insurance • brain fitness • Allstate • Posit Science

(Newser) - Now that the banks' stress tests are done, it's on to the insurance industry. The Treasury Department said today it will give TARP funds to the nation's biggest life insurers, the Washington Post reports. Hartford Financial has been given preliminary approval to receive $3.4 billion, and as-yet unspecified amounts... More »

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Treasury Department • insurance industry • life insurance • Allstate • Prudential Financial • Lincoln National • Hartford Financial • TARP • Ameriprise • Principal Financial Group

MARKETS

 226-Point Sell-Off Erases Rally 

Nervousness builds ahead of January job report

Jan 29, 09 3:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Widespread layoffs and poor housing data spurred a sell-off in stocks that saw the Dow give back yesterday’s gains and more, MarketWatch reports. Weekly jobless claims rose 159,000 and new layoffs were announced at Allstate and Eastman Kodak, stoking fear ahead of next Friday’s January employment report.... More »

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Dow Jones • Eastman Kodak • Nasdaq • new home sales • S&P 500 • employment report • Allstate

As Money Woes Rise, Drivers Let Insurance Lapse

Jobless Americans can't afford insurance

Dec 16, 08 10:14 PM CST
(Newser) - As the unemployment rate climbs, so, too, does the number of drivers letting their car insurance lapse, the Wall Street Journal reports. One industry group says several hundred thousand drivers dropped their insurance in the last year alone. A study two years ago pegged the percentage of uninsured drivers at... More »

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uninsured • auto insurance • Allstate • Insurance.com • Insurance Research Council • consumer price index • Insurance Information Institute • State Farm • uninsured drivers

 New AIG Chief Plans to
Carve Leaner Corporation  

Liddy will sell some assets to pay Feds

Sep 19, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The new CEO of beleaguered giant American Insurance Group plans to trim the company, selling some assets to raise capital and pay back the government following its $85 billion bailout, reports the Wall Street Journal. "There will be a company at the end of this," vowed Edward Liddy,... More »

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Boeing • Goldman Sachs • Henry Paulson • AIG • Allstate • American Insurance Group • Edward Liddy • International Lease Finance Corp. • financial crisis

Sioux Falls, SD, Is Safest for Driving: Study

Residents wreck once every 14.6 years; DC worst at 5.4 years

Jul 1, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sioux Falls, SD, is the safest US city to drive in for the third year in a row, according to an insurance study. Allstate found that Sioux Falls drivers average an accident only once every 14.6 years, compared to a national average of once every 10, the AP reports.... More »

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driving • auto insurance • Sioux Falls • Allstate

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